Doctors are Patients
by Merrick Harris
Doctors are patients; they’re born and die
they have colds, sneezes, and itchy eyes.
They are not exempt, as though they hoped
doctors need checkups and still get scoped.
When they work in their white coats, all nice and clean
they sometimes get frustrated, some even get mean.
But doctors need doctors, though they may forget
they may be the ones in that hospital bed.
Doctors like doctors excellent and nice
who check on them, explain things, and even do it twice.
So where does this change in doctors occur?
Perhaps their work makes everything a blur.
But they should always relate when they take care of me and you
because doctors are patients too.
Merrick Harris is a fourth-year medical student at the UTCOMLS
